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Overview Jira Service Management

Overview Jira Service Management

Jira Service Management is a robust cloud-based platform that enables organizations to manage their IT services and support operations centrally. It features a plethora of tools, including incident management, change management, problem management, and service...

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What is Remote Admin for Jira?

What is Remote Admin for Jira?

What is Remote Admin for Jira? Remote Admin for Jira is a fully managed service offered by RightStar that enables organizations to delegate Jira administration tasks to experts in the field. The service provides a remote administrator responsible for maintaining and...

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Understanding the Benefits of Jira Service Desk

Understanding the Benefits of Jira Service Desk

Jira Service Desk is a highly regarded IT service management (ITSM) software platform that enables organizations to streamline their IT service operations. The platform provides a central help desk system that allows IT teams to manage support requests, optimize...

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Keeping Track of Your Physical Assets in Jira

We all know how great Jira Service Desk is for helping us track issues as they come up. And many use the Insight Asset Management app from Riada in the Atlassian Marketplace to tie assets or other configuration items in the CMDB to those Change, Incident, Problem, and...

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Calculating Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR)

Reporting on MTTR There is a long discussion on calculating MTTR here. But short form: It’s the sum of Resolution time (in days) divided by the number of incidents. Get the Resolution Time – I’m going to use “Closed Date,” which isn’t quite accurate. If you use...

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Avoiding ITSM Feature Overload

Choosing Tools Your Organization Needs IT Service Management (ITSM) is an organizational process that ensures operational teams manage, implement, and provide IT services to stakeholders. These processes include the design, development, and delivery of services such...

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Remedyforce: Spiffing up the Self-Service Portal

We have gotten comments from customers that they would like more control over the Remedyforce Self-Service portal. There has been a way to do that for a while, but I only recently tried it out. It’s something called Salesforce Experience (used to be called Community);...

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BMC Helix Dashboards: Creating a basic report

Recently someone asked if it was possible to create a basic report using BMC Dashboards – a table report with columns such as Incident number, summary, customer name, assigned group, priority, status, etc. And yes, those reports can be created! For example, here is a...

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